[Kafka BC]

@Hitman

I guess I touched a nerve here, sorry to bring you into this.

I don't believe my first post was offensive and was intended to give some supporting "facts" for 'Noisy_Buoy', and as I said at the start of it, it was for other people to ponder, especially about the Night Vision Binoculars.

Nor was the second one to h.sie, in which I apologized for possibly unintentionally offending him.

My third one to 'Graf Paper' I will wholeheartedly admit was agressive. His highhanded use of assumptions over facts in his response to my first post, which he so obviously did not read, really offended me. I can not tell you how much of an insult I consider that to be.

I have readed several times that WW2 submariners (German and US) clearly stated seeing masts over the horizon. I have never myself figured out, while standing on a beach or at sea, how the hell they managed to see such a thin line in the horizon, as Kafka BC says. There must be a reason for this, though damn me if I can figure out which one.

On a day with good visibility I am sure they could see masts over the horizon when using binoculars. If you note in my first post in this thread, the horizon for a U-Boat watchman is about 8 kilometers (5 miles). That is not very far, how far over the horizon, I can't say, it would depend on how much of the mast can be seen and other factors, but it is certainly not 31 kilometers from the bridge of a U-Boat.